Would be illumined! While, as 't is, no doubt,

Something of stain will ever rest on you;

No one will rightly know why you refused

To abdicate; they 'll talk of deeds you could

Have done, no doubt,—nor do I much expect

Future achievement will blot out the past,

Envelope it in haze—nor shall we two

Live happy any more. 'T will be, I feel,

Only in moments that the duty 's seen

As palpably as now: the months, the years